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Suzanne Mulvehill, former Lake Worth city commissioner and the president of sales for a nursery west of Delray Beach, is urging Palm Beach County to widen Atlantic Avenue between the Delray Marketplace and U.S. Highway 441.

“The widening of this small section of roadway was in the 5 year budget in 2013 and years previously, but was taken out of the budget in 2014, when it is now needed the most,” Mulvehill wrote to County Mayor Shelley Vana. “It is clear that with the number of trips nearly doubling on Lyons Road and with the new housing developments being built and PUD’s being built west of Atlantic Avenue, that (there is) need for this small stretch of two-lane road be widened and put into the budget.”

Vana forwarded Mulvehill’s request to County Engineer George Webb, who sent it to Nick Uhren, executive director of the Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Uhren said widening Atlantic Avenue is on the MPO’s radar.

“The Palm Beach MPO Board added the widening of Atlantic Avenue from 2 to 4 lanes between SR 7 and Lyons Road to their Major Project Priority list in 2014 and the design of this project is now funded in FY 2017 of the MPO’s adopted FY 16-20 Transportation Improvement Plan,” Uhren said. “MPO staff are working with (the Florida Department of Transportation) right now to establish the draft FY 17-21 TIP and will be seeking to maintain or advance the design of this project and to identify construction funding.”